Air & Space - 2011 November
Complete issue of the "Air & Space" magazine November 2011. Content: FEATURES: Rough Riders - Five bushplanes that get pilots in - and back out of-some of the wildest places on the planet. BY TOM LECOMPTE The Lodi Rocket Rebels - Hijinks on a high school rocketry club's trip to the nationals. BY PHIL SCOTT Byline: Ernie Pyle - Before he traveled with the infantry, World War II's most famous correspondent wrote about aviation. BY REBECCA MAKSEL SABRE STORIES: Mind If l Borrow It? - When an Air Force mechanic took off in an F-86 Sabre, a more urgent question was: How will you get it back? BY PAUL D. MATHER Could You Fly a Sabre? - Trying on the famous fighter hasn't gotten any easier. BY PAUL HOVERSTEN Lost in America - If you or someone you love flies a small airplane, read this story. BY MICHAEL BEHAR CANCELLED: WINDECKER EAGLE Just One Word: Plastics - The world's first all-composite airplane may fly again. BY STEPHEN JOINER D'oh! 10 Goofs in Space - Some situations even astronauts can't train for. BY PAUL HOVERSTEN - ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID CLARK Karachi to Bombay to Calcutta - As India traveled the road to independence, one man led the way for its people to travel by air. BY DAVID SHAFTEL Last Men Out - A new book reveals the chaos and close calls faced by the Marines tasked with the exit from Vietnam. BY BOB DRURY AND TOM CLAVIN and more...
Magazine
many photos
very good condition
Washington D.C. - 2011 - Smithsonian Institution
Art.Nr. 16431
